8. November, 1999 -- A Monday edition because I found too much over the weekend.
- Understanding Upgrades/Downgrades explains the ratings analysts give to stocks.
Understanding the ratings is a big help if you're looking to invest, and these
explanations actually match what I had come to believe the ratings meant.
- APBnews.com has a lot of crime-related news. The thing that caught my eye is
their Neighborhood CrimeCheck which lets you enter your zipcode and find out
what the crime rate for that zipcode is. They also point to local resources. Useful.
- Fly in the Soup has humorous stories from the front lines of the Food Service Biz.
- The Giveaway of the West is the San Jose Mercury News' report on how
we're subsidizing corporate cowboys and rolex ranchers who are grazing
cattle, which is wrecking the native ecosystem out west. Y'know, if these
folks were wrecking land they owned, I'd have a harder time criticizing it,
but the idea of paying folks to graze their cattle on federally-owned land
galls me.
- The Silicon Valley Outsider is not serious. And that's a Good Thing.
- In Breaking up (with your PC) is hard to do, Dave Plotnikoff tells you how to
know if it's time to upgrade your computer. Hint: if you bought it when there
was a republican in the White House, the answer is probably yes.
- Jon E. Dougherty is Tired of playing victim and believes all prohibitions
against guns should be repealed and repealed now. I find it hard to argue
with him. "I also choose to put armed criminals on notice -- if you waltz into
my office with a gun and evil intentions, you will in turn be gunned down for your
stupidity; you won't live to see a trial." That's one way to cut down on workplace
shooting-sprees.
- Bush flunks foreign policy quiz asking him to name the leaders of four current
world hot-spots: Chechnya, Taiwan, India and Pakistan. He got partial credit
for Taiwan, and nothing else.
- In Washington changes strategy on Milosevic, the South China Morning Post says that
US is no longer demanding that Milosevic be removed before sanctions are lifted. Guess
he's not the Butcher of the Balkans anymore.
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
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